Many industry observers think that the majors are
losing ebook share because of their higher prices, and Mike Shatzkin has written up a remarkably compelling theory that it's Amazon that wanted a return to agency pricing in the new contracts, not the Big Five.
Not exact matches
As you go through the
eBook, I'll
share some information with you about why your hormones may need a break from exercise and calorie restriction in order to allow you to
lose weight and inches first, before you have the active lean life you want.
I hope that more
ebooks will become lending enabled so as to avoid
losing that book - excitement -
sharing that is an awesome part of reading.
However, sales of independently published
ebooks have been growing, which instead suggests that publishers are
losing ebook market
shares to indie authors and Amazon imprints, rather than that the success of digital books and their consumption is dropping overall.
The return to Agency Pricing allowed the B5 to over price their
ebooks and
lose market
share relative to everyone else.
«For the last three years in a rising
ebook market,» AuthorEarnings noted in its February 2017 industry report, «traditional publishers have been rapidly
losing market
share to self - published authors and Amazon imprints faster than the overall market has been growing.»
Barnes & Noble Nook peaked in 2012 and is now
losing market
share rapidly, as Amazon's Kindle has increased domination of the
eBook market with multiple hardware updates a year, sold at break - even to encourage adoption.
I have just read that Amazon is
losing some
ebook market
share to the Nook in the US but Amazon still have 60 % + I can't find the article but I have heard a lot of good things about the Nook.
NOOK doesn't save highlights and notes to the B&N account, so they can't be
shared with other reading devices, there's no way to put them into a computer file or print them, and they'll be
lost if the
ebook is removed from NOOK.
If they force in - book ads (by dropping any support of adless
ebooks), they will
lose huge amounts of market
share.